suspicious - Story 145983 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The building manager, Mr. Henderson, seemed overly cheerful, his smile too bright as he delivered the news. "Isn’t this fantastic?" he’d beamed. Clara had replied with a tight, noncommittal smile, feeling a chill crawl up her spine.

Later, she found herself lingering in the laundry room, observing Mr. Henderson as he made his rounds. He paused by the electrical panel, fiddling with something. Her hand instinctively reached for the light switch, her grip tightening.

She couldn’t shake the impression that something was being hidden, something important. The way the shadows played across his face as he moved about made her uncomfortable.

Emotion: suspicious

Cluster: Suspicion / Vigilance

PC1 (Valence): -0.82 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 0.82

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion suspicious. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 suspicious stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the suspicious emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the suspicious vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`🤔`	0.420
`🤔`	0.415
`🧐`	0.362
`疑`	0.352
`suspicious`	0.352

Suppressed:

`and`	-0.307
`alleviate`	-0.301
`ได้รับการ`	-0.298
`allevi`	-0.285
`mouthful`	-0.284